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This is part of the retired St. Louis Union Station. The train and platform now sit as a display of what the station used to look like.
Macquarie University train station, Sydney.
Waiting for a train to the airport at 5am. There was no one in sight. It felt surreal because I was sleepy and juuust barely awake enough to tell the time.
Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad Line reached Palm Beach in 1894. The Seaboard Airline Railroad Line laid tracks to Palm Beach as late as 1921-1924. It was after 1921 that the Seaboard Airline tracks reached West Palm Beach. Reference to the Seaboard Airline Railroad Station appears in a book printed in 1926.
S. Davis Warfield was president of Seaboard Air Line and in 1924 Warfield built a cross-state line which serviced West Palm Beach and Miami and Homestead in 1926, making a direct rail connection from one coast to the other, across the state. In 1938 the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Airline Railroad Line formed a network over Florida. Trains were air-conditioned and streamlined, and power was generated by Diesel-electric locomotives.
Stockholders in the railroad were important Palm Beach residents, and this station combined their taste in architecture, and their desire for service and convenience, for the community related to their vacation and retirement residences.
L. Phillips Clarke, who designed all of the Seaboard Railroad stations, built his first station at Auburndale. The West Palm Beach station appeared in 1924-1925.
The north-south dimension, paralleling the tracks, is approximately 178 feet. It is 43 feet deep, not including (at the sides) a 13-foot platform on the west. The building is mainly one story high, with a single office on a two-story level near the center and a three-stage tower on the south corner of the east or entrance facade on Tamarind Avenue.
The plan is rectangular, divided essentially in half, with express room and baggage room to the left or south, and behind the loggia the two waiting rooms, now one, separated on the east by restrooms and on the west by the ticket office. The loggia surrounds most of the front and ends, and the shed—roofed passenger platform on the rear or trackside.
The City of West Palm Beach, following a purchase of the building in 1988, tapped local architecture firm Oliver Glidden & Partners to head a $4.3 million restoration of the structure. The project was completed and the station rededicated in a ceremony attended by the Florida Governor in April 1991. Architect Robert D. Brown directed the restoration of ornamental cast stone elements, exterior masonry, doors, windows, and iron and tile work. The red clay tile roof was replaced, as were the electrical, lighting, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Abatement of lead and asbestos was further required to bring the historic structure up to modern building code standards. The restoration effort earned the Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.
In summer 2012, the city finished an improvement project that included the installation of new sidewalks and more than five dozen trees around the building. The improvements were funded with a $750,000 Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, to which the city provided a $150,000 local match.
The station has two side platforms, with access to the station on both sides. West of the southbound platform is a long loop of bus bays serving Palm Tran routes. East of the northbound platform is the station house, a small parking lot, and bus stops for Greyhound Lines buses and Tri-Rail shuttles.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach_Seaboard_Coastline_...
historic-structures.com/fl/west_palm_beach/seaboard_railr....
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Hessische Landes Bahn
Hessische Landesbahn GmbH (HLB) is a German regional transport company owned by the state of Hesse and based in Frankfurt am Main.
Too many memories for me off this platform and on this station; the soundtrack of wheel squeal and compressors coming into action in the background.
As shown on the Flickr blog, June 2013
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Ffestiniog Railway George England 0-4-0 tender tank 'Palmerston' (originally built in 1864) at Campbell's Platform on 4 November 2013.
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56049 makes light work of its short load on 6K38 Pinnox to Crewe after running round at Stafford 01/04/21. Freight is normally uncommon in this platform due to the length of them, although this working seems to use it quite often
Train platform portrait of a young man near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. This guy wanted very much for me to take his picture, and I was happy to oblige him!
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Wisbech East station, on a grey day in summer 1968. Met-Cam DMU in the platform on the left, and the platform once used by the old Wisbech and Upwell Tramway on the right, with track removed. Passenger services on the tramway had ended back in 1927, and the tramway itself closed down in 1966. The station closed in September 1968, and today (2021) all traces have vanished, and the site is occupied by houses and a community centre.
Restored from an under-exposed grainy cyan-colour-shifted (Agfa) original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Platform 7. After 7 months it is finally finished. Having something viewable from all sides as well as the top and bottom of every surface certainly increased the work but I think it was worth it. More pictures and a video to come!
This stream is named on the map as Red Water...I haven't worked out how it came by the name. The insect was a happy fluke. I didn't expect it to remain still for a 3s exposure. IThe rock reminds me of a diving platform, so maybe the insect is working itself up to taking a dive.
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